Yesterday, October 20th, there was a Tohoku / Kumamoto Support Concert by Japanese-American jazz musician AKIRA TANA & OTONOWA at “Oshacchi” in Otsuchi-cho. After the end, there was a surprise and I wanted to play in front of the “The Phone of the Wind” at Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA. In the evening, I was worried about the cold weather, but about 10 members from the United States and about 10 supporters from Tokyo came to Kujirayama and set up the musical instruments immediately. Jazz performance has begun. The unique sound of playing Japanese melody such as nursery rhymes, folk songs, and popular songs of the members in American jazz with a bold arrangement has been praised in Japan and the United States.
Unlike indoors, the sound was absorbed by the forest of Mt. Kujirayama, although it did not resonate, and it seemed to blend in naturally. It’s as if it reaches the people who visited the “The Phone of the Wind”, the people who called it, and the people who died…
People on the walk and dogs listened quietly rather than standing. And in the distance, deer and foxes were singing.
